Solaris bus in Kaunas
The public transportation system is managed by Kauno viešasis transportas (KVT).There are 16 trolleybus routes, 30 bus routes and a wide shared taxi carrier network. In 2007 new electronic monthly tickets began to be introduced for public transport in Kaunas. The monthly E-ticket cards may be bought once and might be credited with an appropriate amount of money in various ways including the Internet. Previous paper monthly tickets were in use until August 2009. Kaunas is also one of the major river ports in the Baltic States and has two piers designated for tourism purposes and located on the banks of Nemunas river and Kaunas Reservoir - the largest Lithuanian artificial lake, created in 1959 by damming the Neman River near Kaunas and Rumšiškės.
Sports
Kaunas S.Dariaus ir S.Girėno Sporto Centras
Sports in Kaunas has a long and distinguished history. The city is home to a few historic clubs such as: LFLS Kaunas football club (est.1920), LFLS Kaunas baseball club (est.1922), Žalgiris basketball club (est.1944). Ice hockey was started to play in Lithuania in 1922. The first Lithuanian ice hockey championship composed of four teams (LFLS, KSK, Kovas, and Macabi) was held in Kaunas, in 1926.[52] Kaunas is home to some of historic venues such as: the main stadium of the city - S.Dariaus ir S.Girėno Sporto Centras (total capacity 9,000), which is also the Lithuanian soccer club FBK Kaunas's and Lithuanian national football team home stadium established in 1923, and, Kaunas Sports Hall, completed in 1939 for the Third European Basketball Championship. S.Dariaus and S.Girėno Stadium is also used as the only large athletics stadium in Lithuania. The university status Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education founded during the Interwar period is the only state-supported institution of tertiary physical education in Lithuania. The National Football Academy - the national center for the training of the best Lithuanian young players of football was established in Kaunas in 2006.
Žalgiris basketball club, one of Europe's strongest, now plays in the Euroleague. Kaunas will host the knockout stage of the European Basketball Championship of 2011. The largest indoor Žalgiris Arena in the Baltics has just been completed in Kaunas. The arena will be used to host sports games as well as concerts. The city is also the birthplace or childhood home of many of the country's top basketball stars, among them Arvydas Sabonis, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, Linas Kleiza, Donatas Motiejūnas and Šarūnas Jasikevičius. Granitas Kaunas is the strongest and most prominent men team handball club in Lithuania. First golf club "Elnias" in Lithuania was opened in Kaunas in 2000. Nemuno žiedas is the only in Lithuania motor racing circuit, situated in Kačerginė, a small town near Kaunas. A yacht club operates in the Kaunas Reservoir Regional Park.
Education
Kaunas University of Technology Rectorate
Kaunas is often referred to as a city of students; there are about 50,000 students enrolled in its universities. The first parochial school in Kaunas was mentioned in 1473. A four-form Jesuit school was opened in Kaunas in 1649. It was reorganized into a college in 1653. The oldest still functioning institution of higher education is Kaunas Priest Seminary, established in 1864. Other institutes of higher education are:
ISM University of Management and Economics - one of the few private institutions of higher education in Lithuania
Vytautas Magnus University founded in 1922 as an alternate national university.
Kaunas Business College
Kaunas University of Applied Sciences (Kaunas College)
Kaunas University of Medicine
Kaunas University of Technology - the largest technical university in the Baltic States
Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education
Lithuanian University of Agriculture
Lithuanian Veterinary Academy
Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities
Mykolas Romeris University Faculty of Public Security
Kaunas Art Institute
Annual events
Kaunas is best known for the Kaunas Jazz Festival, International Operetta Festival, Photo Art Festival "Kaunas photo" or Pažaislis music festival, which usually run from early June until late August each year. The open-air concerts of the historical 49-bell Carillon of Kaunas are held on weekends. Probably the longest established festival is the International Modern Dance Festival, which first ran in 1989.
Kaziukas Fair Kaunas fork (beginning of March)
International open-air "Kaunas Jazz Festival" (April–May)
Day of Kaunas city (middle of May)
Pažaislis music festival (June–August)
Traditional folk music competition "Play, Jurgelis" (November)
Christmas tree lighting (end of November)
Bike Show Millenium (middle of June)
International Hanseatic Days (end of August)
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